Gerhard wrote:
From: Leonard Woren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I never put a continuation mark in JCL either. For one thing it
frustrates "insert". But a better reason for not doing it is that
you can get really obscure JCL problems that way, which may not even
get flagged... just forget the comma after the last parameter on the
line and the continuation mark causes the next card image to be treated as a comment! Of course in my opinion, continued comments in JCL and ASM are one of the stupider designs in the IBM mainframe
world. Don't use them.
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Thirty years ago Shmuel Metz and I consulted at an installation that mandated JOB card comment continuations. The text was used to drive their IEFUJV for job/device setup and other nasties. But for normal comment processing it's wonderful (?) - assume you're running the same job repeatedly, but with one of several DD cards. Just add an asterisk to the ones you don't need, and the normal JCL continuations are treated as comments - no need to insert asterisks in those, too. Definitely less error prone than retyping the needed information.
30 years ago or earlier it was fine beacuse of punched cards.
Nowadays JCL "non-blank" continuation is very unpopular (guess why), even IBM removed it from JCL course.
-- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland
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